Hi,

I am setting up a site in Amazon Web Services to sell our VFP application as SAAS following on the footsteps of several developers that I met at South West Fox.

It is not a web site but an arrangement in the cloud to run a VFP app in virtual machines to which users connect to using remote desktop.

This is what we are setting up:
- A VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to tie it all together
- An EFS (Elastic File System) as file server
- An Active Directory to control user rights
- A number of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances in which our customers will run our application

We also plan to install a Remote Desktop Connection gateway so users can be given a single IP address to connect to our site, followed by a load balancer that will assign an available EC2 instance to the user.
Naturally we also need to provide good security, fail over arrangements and good backups.

There are *many* things that need to be setup and configured but it isn't a completely foreign process. I'm sharing the experience in case it may help someone else.

Alex